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Cheryl Bridges
Cheryl Bridges, now Cheryl Treworgy (born 1947), American long-distance runner; first woman under 2:50 in the marathon (2:49:40, Culver City, 1971) and first US woman on a public-university athletic scholarship; mother of Shalane Flanagan.
Cheryl Ford
Cheryl Ford (born 1981) is a former WNBA forward, daughter of Karl Malone, drafted third overall by Detroit Shock in 2003. Three-time champion, 2003 Rookie of the Year, 2007 All-Star MVP, career 10.8 points and 9.7 rebounds.
Cheryl Gibson
Cheryl Gibson (Cheryl Ann Gibson-Brokop), born 1959 in Edmonton, is a Canadian swimmer who won silver in the 400 m individual medley at Montreal 1976 in 4:48.10, a world-record time behind doped East German Ulrike Tauber; later a lawyer and Swimming Canada president.
Cheryl Miller
Cheryl Miller (born 1964, Riverside, California) is a Hall of Fame basketball player, coach, and broadcaster; USC star with 3,018 points, two NCAA titles, 1984 Olympic gold, Naismith Hall of Fame 1995, sister of Reggie Miller.
Cheryl Pounder
Cheryl Pounder (-O'Toole), Canadian ice hockey defenceman born 1976 in Montreal; two Olympic golds (2002, 2006), six IIHF world titles, later TSN/CBC colour commentator and motivational speaker from Mississauga.
Cheryl Toussaint
Cheryl Toussaint (Cheryl Renee Toussaint-Eason, born 1952, Brooklyn) is an American sprinter and 800 m runner, 1972 Olympic 4x400 m relay silver medalist, 1971 Pan Am relay gold medalist, and meet director of the Colgate Women's Games since 2014.
Cheryl's Birthday
Cheryl's Birthday: viral 2015 SASMO epistemic logic puzzle. Cheryl tells Albert the month, Bernard the day of one of ten dates; their public statements of knowing and not knowing yield July 16 (alternative August 17 rejected).
Cheshire County Cricket League
Cheshire County Cricket League (CCCL), the top club cricket league in Cheshire, England; formed 1975 from Manchester Association clubs, ECB Premier League with Premier, Division 1-3 at 1st and 2nd XI level, distinct from the Derbyshire & Cheshire Cricket League.
Cheslin Kolbe
Cheslin Kolbe, South African rugby wing (born 1993, Kraaifontein), two-time Rugby World Cup winner 2019 and 2023 with the Springboks, 2024 SA Rugby Player of the Year, known for sidestepping and goalkicking despite his 171 cm height.
Chess
Chess, a two-player strategy board game originating as Indian chaturanga around the 5th century CE, is played under FIDE Laws with checkmate as the objective; roughly 600 million people play worldwide, with 566,829 FIDE-rated players as of September 2026.
Chess annotation symbols
Chess annotation symbols, or chess annotation, are marks appended to moves in a game record to grade their quality, from brilliant (!!) to blunder (??), and report results.
Chess at the Asian Games
Chess has been a medal sport at three Asian Games: Doha 2006, Guangzhou 2010, and Hangzhou 2023, where Iran won the men's team title and China the women's.
Chess boxing
Chess boxing (chessboxing), hybrid sport from Enki Bilal's 1992 comic and Iepe Rubingh's 2003 Berlin debut, alternates speed chess and boxing rounds; wins come by checkmate, clock forfeit, or knockout.
Chess composer
Chess composer, also problemist or study composer, creator of chess compositions with unique intended solutions. Genres include studies, direct mates, selfmates, helpmates; governed by the WFCC, founded 1956.
Chess endgame
Chess endgame: the final phase after most pieces are exchanged, focused on pawn promotion and king activity. Solved exactly by tablebases for positions with seven or fewer pieces; Syzygy 7-piece set covers 423 trillion positions.
Chess in India
Chess in India: from ancient chaturanga, the 6th-century origin of chess, through Anand's five world titles and Gukesh's 2024 world championship to India's 2024 double-gold Chess Olympiad triumph under the AICF.
Chess notation
Chess notation records game moves; standard algebraic notation (SAN) uses fixed squares a1-h8, replacing descriptive notation (P-K4, N-KB3), which FIDE dropped in 1981; PGN and national piece letters differ.
Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad, FIDE's biennial national-team chess championship, first held officially in London 1927 (Hungary won, Hamilton-Russell Cup); held every two years since 1950; Soviet Union won 18 open golds; 46th edition Samarkand 2026.
Chess on a really big board
Chess on a really big board, a 1996 Ralph Betza chess variant on a 16×16, 256-square board with 8 fairy pieces (Rose, Archbishop, Chancellor, Super Knight) and 8 extra pawns per side, six-square pawn first moves, and a 100-move draw rule.
Chess opening
Chess opening: the initial moves of a chess game and their established theory, classified by ECO codes A00–E99 (~500 codes, ~3,400 named variations), studied via principles, repertoires, engines, and databases.
Chess Oscar
The Chess Oscar is an annual award honoring chess achievement, first given in 1967 to Bent Larsen, voted on by chess journalists, and relaunched by FIDE in 2026.
Chess piece
Chess piece: one of 32 objects (16 per side: king, queen, rooks, bishops, knights, pawns) moved on an 8x8 board. Standard form is the 1849 Staunton design by Nathaniel Cook, John Jaques, endorsed by Howard Staunton; FIDE sets heights 9.5 cm king to 5 cm pawn.
Chess piece relative value
Chess piece relative value, also called point value, assigns each chess piece a worth in pawns, such as knight 3, bishop 3, rook 5, and queen 9.
Chess problem
Chess problem: a composed position with a stipulation like "mate in two", distinct from game puzzles. Genres include direct mate, helpmate, selfmate, and study; governed by the WFCC Codex, with composing and solving tournaments and FIDE Album recognition.
Chess prodigy
Chess prodigy: a child playing chess at adult-master strength, measured by FIDE rating and titles. Classic examples Morphy, Capablanca, Reshevsky, Fischer; youngest GM records now fall before age 13.
Chess rating system
Chess rating system: numerical estimation of player strength. Elo system by Arpad Elo, adopted by USCF 1960 and FIDE 1970; Glicko/Glicko-2 variants with rating deviation used by Chess.com and Lichess; FIDE 2024 anti-deflation reform.
Chess strategy
Chess strategy: long-term play for advantages in king safety, pawn structure, space, and piece activity, distinct from tactics. Covers weak squares, outposts, pawn breaks, middlegame planning, and engine-era evaluation.
Chess tactic
Chess tactic: a forcing move or sequence winning material or mating. Motifs include fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, removal of the defender. Rooted in shatranj mansubat; central to modern puzzle training.
Chess title
Chess title: FIDE player ranks Grandmaster (GM), International Master (IM), FIDE Master (FM), Candidate Master (CM), plus women's titles WGM-WCM, earned by rating thresholds (GM 2500), norms, or direct awards; established 1950 with 27 GMs.
Chess World Cup 2019
FIDE World Cup 2019: 128-player knockout in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, September 9–October 4, 2019. Teimour Radjabov beat Ding Liren in a blitz tiebreak to win the $1.6M event and a 2020 Candidates spot.